Rainbow in the Delta (95 images)

The "Rainbow Warrior", one of the Greenpeace ships It continues its struggle in defense of the planet and its inhabitants. Only fighting against the disease instead of pollution, and the warriors are doctors.

The Rongdhonu, in fact, is an hospital ship that was sold by Greenpeace to Friendship, a Bangladeshi NGO fighting the lack of medical care in the poorest and most isolated area from one of the poorest and most...more »

Rongdhonu "Rainbow” in Bengali.

The "Rainbow Warrior", one of the Greenpeace ships It continues its struggle in defense of the planet and its inhabitants. Only fighting against the disease instead of pollution, and the warriors are doctors.

The Rongdhonu, in fact, is an hospital ship that was sold by Greenpeace to Friendship, a Bangladeshi NGO fighting the lack of medical care in the poorest and most isolated area from one of the poorest and most isolated area in the world. One of these, the poorest and most isolated area, is in the Bay of Bengal, where the Ganges and the Brahmaputra are joined in a huge delta swamps and lowlands. Cyclically devastated by cyclones and submerged by tidal flows. One area where the living conditions are at the limit of survival and where the most common disease can be fatal.

Predestined victims of this tragedy are women, they are subject to a sort of wives and mothers girls, working in the fields, at home, on the river. To help with at least some, the Rongdhonu boarded a team of gynecologists and American nurses that in three days, working day and night, has successfully operated 32 women whom, for the conditions of life and work, had a severe form of pelvic prolapse.

The report documents this situation by presenting a reality that in the Western world is "surreal", as he was called by one of the doctor. But it is also a way to reflect on the economy (including the ambiguity of microcredit, granted only to women because they are considered more reliable, but on which it rests the burden), social policy, the relationship between climate and environment
in Bangladesh, in turn global example of the contradictions between nations.« less